Word: authoritarianism
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...campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. is unlikely to give the last word to lawyers or legislators. "At stake for the Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy," says Padgett. "Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba." And even as the anti-Castro exiles use the Elian case as a make-or-break campaign to revive their fortunes, it's working wonders for the dictator they love to hate. "Elian...
...Disney product, mounted and mass-audience-tested like a theme-park ride. The opera's tragic story--about an Egyptian captain, Radames, and his forbidden love for the slave princess Aida--has been put through the studio's familiar food processor. Each of the main characters clashes with an authoritarian father; Aida is a feisty, headstrong heroine in the line of Mulan and Pocahontas; the bad guys dress in fascistic black trench coats. (And while the Nubian slaves are mostly African Americans, the Egyptians seem to have acquired a blond gene.) Those Disney magicians have even found...
...Like many players, my grandparents followed what my high school theology teacher would have called an authoritarian method for picking horses. Before hopping Gus' bus, my grandfather would pay $2 for a handicapping sheet xeroxed on bright orange paper in the cigarette store across Second Avenue from his apartment. This sheet, which was compiled by "Clocker Lawton," tipped three horses in each of Aqueduct's nine races that day. Lawton--the only clue to whose identity was a grainy photograph of a man in a trenchcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, a cross between Elliott Ness and John Wayne, printed...
...countryside first and gradually encircling the beleaguered white settler minority in the towns. But the war of liberation ended 20 years ago - Mugabe has been president ever since - and its victor on Tuesday suffered a historic defeat at the hands of the black urban poor. The president's authoritarian constitutional proposals (which included the right to summarily dissolve parliament) were rejected by 55 percent of voters, despite Mugabe's attempt to woo his traditional peasant support base with a promise to nationalize the country's 4,000 white-owned commercial farms and turn them over to land-starved black small...
...moment too soon: well over half of Jordanians are under age 16, and will soon be demanding a slice of the economic cake. To give it to them, Abdullah has devised a plan centered on a privatization effort that is almost unprecedented in the Arab world, where authoritarian kings and presidents have feared--with good reason--that economic freedom would ultimately weaken their hold on political power. Abdullah, however, is openly declaring his aim of bringing democracy to Jordan...